3 # Copyright (c) 2005, Linus Torvalds
4 # Copyright (c) 2005, Junio C Hamano
6 # Clone a repository into a different directory that does not yet exist.
9 echo >&2 "* git clone [-l] <repo> <dir>"
17 *,-l|*,--l|*,--lo|*,--loc|*,--loca|*,--local) use_local=yes ;;
29 (cd "$dir" && git-init-db && pwd)
33 # We do local magic only when the user tells us to.
36 ( cd "$repo/objects" ) || {
38 ( cd "$repo/objects" ) || {
39 echo >&2 "-l flag seen but $repo is not local."
44 # See if we can hardlink and drop "l" if not.
45 sample_file=$(cd "$repo" && \
46 find objects -type f -print | sed -e 1q)
48 # objects directory should not be empty since we are cloning!
49 test -f "$repo/$sample_file" || exit
52 if ln "$repo/$sample_file" "$D/.git/objects/sample" 2>/dev/null
56 rm -f "$D/.git/objects/sample" &&
57 cp -r$l "$repo/objects" "$D/.git/" || exit 1
59 # Make a duplicate of refs and HEAD pointer
61 if test -f "$repo/HEAD"
65 tar Ccf "$repo" - refs $HEAD | tar Cxf "$D/.git" - || exit 1
70 cd "$D" && git clone-pack "$repo"